Back in time

[dreamflower]

Good heavens! I was googling for something else entirely, and among the things the search came up with was this thread on rec.arts.books.tolkien (I'm "aelfwina" by the way) from Feb. 2004, when I had just begun to read fanfic, before I had written any myself.

Brings back a lot of memories...

Comments

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

It makes me miss usenet.. I had to let go of that when Kevin was born *sighs*

[dreamflower]

I faded away after LJ and beginning to write fic-- I just couldn't keep track of both usenet *and* LJ!

[shirebound]

I like this: "a few mentions of Rosie before RoTK would have been nice. (It would also have been a good bonding moment for Aragorn and Sam; both with a girl waiting at home.)"

Nice plot bunny!

[dreamflower]

It is! I seem to recall seeing a fic about that recently-- but I can't remember the author off the top of my head...

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

naww...I think I was on rec.arts.books.tolkien back in 1999! Then I went away for a few years and then came back a bit (just lurking, I think) and I think it was through that forum that I was pointed to fan fiction and you guys back in the spring of 2002! :)))

[dreamflower]

I found fanfic through a link there as well, to Elana's hilarious parody, "No Living Man"

And then I started reading some of the other stories...

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I loved this line:

What is fanfic? Did a google but not sure I found what you are referring
to...

It seems to me to be impossible not to know that and yet I'm certain that lots of folks don't. I didn't know it was on the internet for the longest time but I've known about it under various names since I was about 12 years old.

Sometimes I wish I could go all the way back to when I first found LOTR fiction on line and have the fun of reading it all over again. : )
I miss when it was all new to me and I checked Marigold's Recommendations every single Friday for new hobbit stories! Back when I wasn't writing at all, just enjoying reading things. I miss those days!

[dreamflower]

No, a lot of people don't. I find myself constantly trying to explain it to people who never heard of it before!

I remember in the early '70s being aware of Star Trek fanzines, though I was never lucky enough to get my hands on one-- but I didn't know they called the stories "fanfic"!

Then I got on the internet...

Sometimes I wish I could go all the way back to when I first found LOTR fiction on line and have the fun of reading it all over again. : )

Sometimes I wish I could get temporary partial amnesia, and read LotR all over again for the first time! And the same for fic...I'm still insatiable, but there just isn't enough new stuff anymore, and while there is a joy in re-reading, there's no surprise. I miss Marigold's Recs, and the Challenges. But at least she inspired some other challenges...

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I had a Star Trek Fanzine once, just one issue. A girl I met on a vacation who was a couple years older than I was, sent it to me. She was involved in it's printing and I remember being soooo impressed with her. She had been to a Trek convention in NY! That was totally beyond me at that point in time.

I miss finding new stuff on line too and I miss the writers that have moved on to other fandoms or just moved on. Change isn't always good but it always comes.

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen this thing before. I think I joined the fandom too late for usenet. ff.net and LJ was already up when I started reading in 2002.

[dreamflower]

Usenet's still going on, but not as strong as it once was. But it's hard to keep too many things going.